ONCE WAS A SMALL TOWN IN THE MID 1920'S TO THE LATE 1930'S.

Jas Cline who was a prospector had additionally discovered gold on what would become the Cline Lake Gold Mine in 1918. Mr. Cline and his brother had staked several claims around the Algoma region that would become a promising discovery for gold after the First World War. Cline Lake Mines was rather a small company town that had been approved by the Ontario Government. Many small company towns were establish near mining operations in order to provide close access for employees. The Town of Cline Lake Mines, was first built in 1925, by the historical Cline Canadian Gold Mines, Limited. in 1925.

In the mid 1920's, Cline Lake Mines was rather an exploration site for gold as two shafts were sunk on the property to further evaluate this deposit.The Cline Canadian Gold Mines, Limited. also had its own subsidiary company that was commonly known as the Canadian Mines Syndicate. Within this time period the first shaft known as the No. 1 Prospect Shaft had been sunk to a depth of 140 feet and the No. 2 Prospect Shaft had its own depth of 215 feet. By the end of 1925, the option on this property was allowed to officially lapse as the company didn't find this site very promising.

By 1927, the Cline Lake Gold Property was later optioned out to Norman Paxton Incorporated and had additionally further explored this property. Another Prospect Shaft known as the Office Shaft was sunk a bit further from the previous shafts to a depth of 115 feet below the surface. But the claims that were still owned by Jas Cline were allowed to lapse and the Cline Lake Mine along with its company town had become abandoned.

A much bigger Town of Cline Lake Mines was establish in 1936, when J. L. Murray had incorporated the Cline Lake Gold Mines, Limited. Cline Lake Mines in 1937, had consisted of twenty houses for the mines staff and their families who came to liver there at the time. With this development came several large scale bunkhouses that were used for the single employees at the time. Cline Lake Mines, also had its very own population of children that had resulted in the development of a school for educational purposes. The main reason for developing this company town was mainly because it had been quite isolated and the company need to accommodate 200 employees who work at the new Cline Lake Gold Mine. A resident by the name of Alma and her husband had also resided here as her husband had worked for the Cline Lake Gold Mines, Limited.

Payroll that was establish for the mine workers was considered to have been delivered by train to a makeshift bank in a freight shed at Goudreau. On pay days the mine manager would additionally pick up the money from the bank and drive to the mine site at Cline Lake, where many miners would be paid. This had happen continuously till a major down fall had occurred when an attempt was made to steal the pay-roll. These thieves had knew that the manager of the mine would come pick up the payroll and they had eventually set up a roadblock between Goudreau and the Mine Site. It was during this time period when the thieves had piled sand on the road and had written a sign saying, stop here or you will be blasted. The sign had instructed the manager to put the suitcase at the side of the road and to turn around and go away. However, this did not happen as the manager would turn around but had taken the suite case and went back without leaving the money behind. By the next week, the thieves had struck again when they stole the safe from the freight shed. Here they had broken it up in the bush before taking off with the cash and the authorities were called which they had retrived the empty safe. They never did find out who had broken into the safe, or did they capture those responsible for breaking in and stealing the safe.

Much of the community of Cline Lake Mines had also participated in various organized sports that took place as entertainment. They also had their very own broomball team, that would play many different towns such as White River, Missanabie, and Franz. The town also had its own hockey team, and baseball team that would also compete against many towns just like the Broomball team did. Baseball was mainly played against two towns known as Goudreau and Lochalsh, and hockey was played on the lakes which had been flooded, and boards were also place. During the start of World War 2, many mines were force to close down including Cline Lake Gold Mine as the price in gold had drop significantly. By 1940, the Town of Cline Lake Mines was officially abandoned, and all the buildings were eventually torn down by 1946. Several townsite in the Algoma District became abandoned as the mines were officially closed down and out of business as the economy had fallen. This was rather apart of the bust and boom cycle that had effect not only the Algoma region but other parts of Ontario, Canada to.